YIKES! I am becoming a part of the consumerism I so heartily denounce. HSN is ruining my personal vision of myself and I am letting them so they will pay me. Where did the old me go and so quickly, at that!? One minute I am arrogantly proud of my lack of consumerism and the next I am squarely in the midst of it. Order after order after order. I get a picture of that scene from I Love Lucy when Lucy and Ethel are working on the assembly line at the candy factory. I will post it tomorrow. If you are a friend of mine and you can hold that thought until tomorrow then more power to you.
Oh but my duplicity does not end with HSN. I cannot even fish because I cannot bear to kill the fish and I cannot be near a cooler on the pier if the fish are thrashing around in their death throes. But I can eat fish and beef and chicken and pork. I just can't kill it. What does this say about me? Lawd a'mercy! My hypocrisy knows no bounds!
But it started years ago when I went to work on the military base and found myself counting, packaging and eventually ordering parts that were being made for implements of destruction. It took awhile for me to get the awareness that I was working for a part of the war machine and, oh me, as time went by I became an avid hawk. Dare I say it? All those years of hearing story after story of heroism, understanding how those beautiful war helicopters and aircraft performed and watching young men go off to foreign countries and them depending on us to do our jobs well. Our jobs saved lives. Our jobs took lives.
So what does that make me....A consumerism freak with a penchant for flesh and war mongering!! I am an AMERICAN! Hurray for the red, white and blue!
Oh well, I secretly love film noir and I do not kill any pest that stays out of my house or is not harming me, i.e. ants, spiders, snakes, etc. I leave spider webs intact. I talk back to an owl when he is in town and I carry on conversations with my cats. They win every single argument or test of wills.
The world is a wild and many splendored thing. Carpe Diem! Tomorrow I celebrate thanksgiving and then I get on the phone and sell, sell, sell!
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